Video Generation

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   OpenAI shuts Sora video app, Disney deal scrapped

   OpenAI announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Sora app, the video generation tool the company launched in December 2024. The $1 billion（約1600億円） partnership deal with Disney, announced in December 2025 to let users create videos with Disney characters, is also being terminated. OpenAI did not confirm reports that Sora would move into ChatGPT, but promised to share timelines for the app and API soon. Sora faced steep competition from other AI video tools like Google's Veo and Luma Ray and never captured the early momentum from its launch. The sudden exit and Disney deal cancellation, just months after CEO Bob Iger was promoting the partnership in February 2026, signal internal turmoil at OpenAI—a company also dealing with wrongful death lawsuits tied to teen mental health concerns.

   OpenAI has promised to share more details soon, including timelines for preserving user work. The deal was originally set to last three years; Disney said it "respects" OpenAI's decision to exit video generation and shift priorities elsewhere.

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   Apple releases VideoFlexTok video tokenization research

   Apple published research on VideoFlexTok, a new video tokenization method that uses a coarse-to-fine approach to compress video into tokens for AI models. The technique represents videos as spatiotemporal grids of tokens, each capturing local information from the original video. Standard video tokenizers force downstream models like text-to-video generators to predict all pixel-level details regardless of video complexity. VideoFlexTok's flexible-length approach could reduce this burden, potentially making video AI models more efficient.

   The research is published at machinelearning.apple.com/research/videoflextok. The work addresses a fundamental challenge in how video information is organized for AI processing, which affects both model training efficiency and output quality.

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   AI Music Video Generation: 10 Tools That Automate Your Creative Workflow in 2026

   AI Music Video Generation: 10 Tools That Automate Your Creative Workflow in 2026

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   Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash for faster AI images and video

   Google released two new AI models—Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast image generation at $0.034 per image in four seconds, and Gemini Omni Flash for video generation and editing via API at $0.10 per second of output. Both are now available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Nano Banana 2 Lite replaces Google's older image model and offers a lower-cost, faster option for developers who prioritize speed over quality. Gemini Omni Flash opens video generation to the API for the first time, allowing developers to combine text, images, and video in a single workflow—and Google recommends chaining both models together to quickly generate images and animate them into video.

   Gemini Omni Flash currently generates only ten-second clips, and audio references and scene extensions are not yet supported in the API. Character consistency across scene changes remains limited. Both models apply SynthID watermarks to tag AI-generated content, with verification available through the Gemini app, Gemini in Chrome, and Google Search.

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   Google rolls out Gemini Omni Flash API for video editing via conversation

   Google is launching Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in its new Omni family, through an API for developers and enterprise customers. The model can generate and edit video through conversational prompts, moving beyond traditional text-to-video generation to allow users to modify finished clips by describing changes in natural language. Enterprise video production today requires planning, crew or vendors, shooting, editing, and revisions—making internal video expensive and time-consuming to produce. Omni Flash's conversational editing capability could reduce this friction, allowing businesses to iterate on video content faster without rebuilding from scratch each time a detail changes.

   The API rollout follows the model's consumer debut at Google I/O 2026 in May. The article notes that when Omni first launched, it lacked a programmatic interface, limiting it to consumer and prosumer use—a gap the API now fills for enterprise adoption.

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   Soracom Adds New Feature to "Wisora": Handover Function for AI and Human Collaborative Response

   Soracom Adds New Feature to "Wisora": Handover Function for AI and Human Collaborative Response